I'm observing National Fritter Day a day early since the relevant pushcart doesn't come around on weekends. ...
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There was a grocery delivery mixup and now I kinda feel like I've been challenged to prepare a meal featuring a surprise mystery ingredient. ...
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My latest innovation in recipes for the easily distracted: the latke bowl. Are you tired of carefully flipping over your latkes, making sure they don't splash oil on your stove? Ugh, that requires to...
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My most recent grocery delivery came with free samples. Among those samples lurked a couple of packets of ground coffee. The supermarket chose a bold strategy. Avoiding swapping air during the pandem...
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The Ice Cream Bar, my local ice cream parlor, requires everyone inside to wear masks at all times. (This makes sense; a sizable fraction of their customers are kids too young to vaccinate.) Thus, the...
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I drank some instant tea. But first I snapped photos because I didn't find much online about this tea. Behold: Platinum Myanmar Milk Tea. ...
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Book Report: Sourdough
I'm acquainted with a former computer programmer who ditched that life to become a baker. But he didn't have magical-realism sourdough starter that responds to music. So maybe this book isn't that re...
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Oh, no wonder that jar was so hard to open. It involved breaking a chip of glass off of one of the threads. ...
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The new ice cream parlor a few blocks away has a backstory: during prohibition times, bartenders were out of work. So they went to the soda fountains and sophisticated-itized them. I felt like a n00b...
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APOLOGIZE TO THE RICE RIGHT NOW
A few months back, an ice cream manufacturer rolled out a big advertising campaign in San Francisco: a bunch of big posters saying "San Francisco Deserves a Better Treat Than Rice". If they'd said "...
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Link: Coffee to the People
I guess as long as I'm linking to a cafe, I should link to the place where I pick up coffee on weekend mornings: Coffee to the People. I claim that it is awesome. It's a cafe at Haight on Masonic. T...
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Book Report: Noodling for Flatheads
I've been watching teams' Ghost Patrol application videos. They've been fun, with a lot of variety. What does this tell us? Fun: This demonstrates that Gamers are silly Variety: This demonstrates ...
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Site: Updated No-Name Sushi Menu
I've been forcing myself to use the new computer, putting it through its paces. If there are important files/settings/whatevers that I forgot to copy over from the old machine, I'd like to know abou...
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Book Report: Long Time Leaving
Yes, I have mostly been writing about the computer crapola lately. But I do still have a long bus commute and I have still been reading plenty. Would that everyhting I read was as much fun as Long ...
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Not exactly a Book Report; Not exactly PuzzleHunt-Related
If you've always meant to check out the magazine Giant Robot but never got around to it, now you have some more motivation. Issue #44, in stores now, has an interview with Tetsuya Nishio. Yeah,...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, including outside a local cafe
Today was the YABA 2005 treasure hunt game, run by Alexandra Dixon. I volunteered to help out. Game control has to do many things. Scout the course, design puzzles, playtest, print puzzles, set up...
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Current Events
This is a blog; it is largely about books. Today the blogosphere is abuzz with news about a book: the new Harry Potter book is out. I spent the day sailing. Thus, I had a fun time with Piaw and Li...
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Book Report: Something From the Oven
Laura Shapiro wrote this awesome book about home cooking in 1950s USA. There are many interesting stories here. There is the tragic tale of Poppy Cannon who tried to convince the world that canned t...
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